Contributions from Science Education Research

✍ Scribed by Peter J. Fensham (auth.), Roser Pintó, Digna Couso (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 508
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In August 2005, over 500 international researchers from the field of science education met at the 5th European Science Education Research Association conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Two of the main topics at this conference were: the decrease in the number of students interested in school science and concern about the worldwide outcomes of studies on students’ scientific literacy. At the conference, over 400 papers were presented, covering a wide range of topics relevant to science education research, such as evidence-based practice, teachers’ professional development, the role of ICT and multimedia, formal and informal learning environments, and argumentation and modelling in science education. This volume includes edited versions of 37 outstanding papers presented during the conference, including the lectures of the keynote speakers. They have been selected for their quality, variety and interest, and present a good overview of the field of science education research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Interest in Science: Lessons and non-lessons from TIMSS and PISA....Pages 3-10
Research-based Innovative Units for Enhancing Student Cognitive Outcomes and Interest in Science....Pages 11-26
Girls and Physics: Dilemmas and Tensions....Pages 27-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Contested Territory: The Actual and Potential Impact of Research on Teaching and Learning Science on Students’ Learning....Pages 39-57
Studying Science Teaching Practices in Relation to Learning: Time Scales of Teaching Phenomena....Pages 59-75
The Potential of Video Studies in Research on Teaching and Learning Science....Pages 77-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Pedagogical Content Knowledge: What Does it Mean to Science Teachers?....Pages 93-105
Science Teachers’ PCK and Teaching Practice: Learning to Scaffold Students’ Open-inquiry Learning....Pages 107-118
Physics in Context – A program for Improving Physics Instruction in Germany....Pages 119-130
The Relationship of Capability Beliefs and Teaching Environments of New Danish Elementary Teachers of Science to Teaching Success....Pages 131-142
A Beginners’ Module of Integrated Natural Science for Secondary Teacher Students: The result of an Educational Reconstruction Process over Three Iterations....Pages 143-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Learning Process Studies....Pages 159-171
Meaning Construction and Contextualization While Solving a Dynamics Task in the Laboratory....Pages 173-185
Development of a Model of Formative Assessment....Pages 187-198
Memorisation of Information from Scientific Movies....Pages 199-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Micro-organisms: Everyday Knowledge Predates and Contrasts with School Knowledge....Pages 213-224
Using the Processes of Electrical Charge of Bodies as a Tool in the Assessment of University Students’ Learning in Electricity....Pages 225-236
Representation and Learning about Evaporation....Pages 237-248
Learning from the History and Philosophy of Science: Deficiencies in Teaching the Macroscopic Concepts of Substance and Chemical Change....Pages 249-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Non-Formal Science Teaching and Learning....Pages 263-273
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Adults’ Understanding of Analogy-based Exhibits in an Interactive Science Museum....Pages 275-287
The Puppets Project: Using Puppets to Promote Engagement and Talk in Science....Pages 289-296
Inquiring the Inquiry Laboratory in High School....Pages 297-306
Developing Students’ Views on the Nature of Science through Non-traditional Writing-to-Learn Experiences in the Science Classroom....Pages 307-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Towards a Validated Conception of Scientific Models....Pages 321-332
The Development of Elementary Students’ Understanding of Complex Ecosystems Through a Model-Based Approach....Pages 333-345
Effects of Model-Based Teaching on the Durability of Pre-Service Physics Teachers’ Conceptions of Lunar Events....Pages 347-359
Learning and Teaching about Ecosystems Based on Systems Thinking and Modelling in an Authentic Practice....Pages 361-374
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Argumentation and the Learning of Science....Pages 377-388
Students’ Argumentation in Group Discussions on a Socio-Scientific Issue....Pages 389-401
Exemplary Teaching of Argumentation: A Case Study of Two Science Teachers....Pages 403-415
What Can We Learn from a Study of Argumentation in the Students Answers and Group Discussion to Open Physics Problems?....Pages 417-431
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Evaluating Students’ Multimedia Science Design Projects in the Elementary Classroom....Pages 435-449
Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Inquiry Learning: Four Approaches under Common Aspects....Pages 451-463
Visualizing the Quantum Atom....Pages 465-475
Evaluation of the Hypermedia Learning Environment “Physics for Medical Students” Within two Different Settings....Pages 477-487
The Role of Language in Learning Physics with Computer-based Multimedia....Pages 489-502
Back Matter....Pages 503-518

✦ Subjects

Science Education; Teacher Education; Learning & Instruction